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Thursday 17 May 2018

The Craft and Passion for Coffee
Barista Championship Aruba won by Abigail Wernet

Janella Werleman (Star- just pouring coffee and milk this championship and also
bucks Paseo), Mistika Cork in a cup. The jury was sur- celebrates the craft of the
(Starbucks Renaissance prised to see what effort barista. More than 75 mil-
Mall) and Abigail Wernet goes into the making of a lion customers around the
(Starbucks Renaissance beverage and how essen- world are weekly being
Marketplace) each repre- tial it is to follow the right served by the baristas and
sented one of the Starbucks procedures. “I never imag- Starbucks sees them as true
stores in Aruba and battled ined that Starbucks makes artists.
ORANJESTAD — Not only baristas to show what they against each other to be the difference by making
the milk was steaming last got. The overall winner of the best barista on the is- details count this much”, For Abigail the evening
Tuesday night at Starbucks the barista Championship land. Nikky was the partici- was one of the jury’s com- was a hit when she heard
Renaissance Mall. The fa- turned out to be Abigail pant from Curacao and in ments. The Aruban winner the jury calling out her
natic supporters of the Wernet who will represent the end Aruba’s winner, of last year’s competition, name as winner, she was
participants in the Barista the islands of Aruba and Abigail, had to compete Shamiris Ascanio, experi- visibly overwhelmed by
Championship Aruba/Cu- Curacao in Costa Rica this with Nikky which resulted in enced in last year’s LATAM emotions. Each participant
racao made sure that they year for the Starbucks LA- Abigail being the all-over Championship in Mexico could earn 44 points in total
were being heard, but in TAM Barista Championship. winner. how the company sets their and she did get them all.
the end it was up to the four standards high. “If you for- What made the difference
The four-headed jury (Alex- get to put the milk back in was her completion: she
andra Kuis - Director of Bars the fridge immediately, you connected with the jury,
and Restaurants Renais- are out. Cleaning the ma- worked clean and con-
sance Resort, Tineke Lenters chine is a standard routine centrated, had the perfect
- Manager Renaissance and can never be missed. steamed milk and espresso
Private Island, Maartje Dol- During the championship shots and finished off with
phin - Manager Vela Sports be sure to focus on the an impeccable heart of
and Linda Reijnders - Editor details, Starbucks is keen milk foam. We wish her all
in Chief Aruba Today) had on that.” The company el- the luck in Costa Rica!q
to judge the presentation, evates their partners with
the taste, the skills and the
working hygiene of the la-
dies. Extra points were to
be earned by creating an
art with the milk foam. The
winner scored with the per-
fect heart of milk foam on
top of the latte macchiato.
“This was their change to
demonstrate their passion
and pride for coffee”, com-
ments the organization.

Keen on Details
Through this Barista Cham-
pionship Starbucks recog-
nizes baristas and their skills,
they do so much more than